Frederik Van Eeden

The Bride of Dreams "", has been considered a very important part of the human history, but is currently not available in printed formats. Hence so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format so that it is never forgotten and always remembered by the present and future generations. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed.

Reproduction of the original: The Bride of Dreams by Frederik van Eeden

Reproduction of the original: The Bride of Dreams by Frederik van Eeden

Reproduction of the original: Little Johannes by Frederik van Eeden

Reproduction of the original: Little Johannes by Frederik van Eeden

Frederik van Eeden: Der kleine Johannes De Kleine Johannes. Erstdruck Mouton, Verlag 's-Gravenhage, 1887. Hier in der deutschen Ubersetzung von Else Otten, Berlin, Schuster und Loeffler, 1906. Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2018. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Boris Kustodiev, Junge am Zaun, 1915. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

Frederik van Eeden: Der kleine Johannes De Kleine Johannes. Erstdruck Mouton, Verlag 's-Gravenhage, 1887. Hier in der deutschen Ubersetzung von Else Otten, Berlin, Schuster und Loeffler, 1906. Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2018. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Boris Kustodiev, Junge am Zaun, 1915. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

Frederik van Eeden: Der kleine Johannes Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2018 Durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger De Kleine Johannes. Erstdruck Mouton, Verlag 's-Gravenhage, 1887. Hier in der deutschen bersetzung von Else Otten, Berlin, Schuster und Loeffler, 1906. Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Boris Kustodiev, Junge am Zaun, 1915 Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

" ...]clock ran down Johannes felt quite guilty, and begged its pardon a dozen times over. You would have laughed, no doubt, if you had heard him talking to his room. But perhaps you sometimes talk to yourself; that does not seem to you altogether ridiculous; and Johannes was perfectly convinced that his hearers had quite understood him, and he required no answer. Still he secretly thought that he might perhaps have a reply from the clock or the curtains. Johannes had schoolmates, but they were not exactly friends. He played with them, and plotted tricks with them in school, and robber-games out of school; still he never felt quite at home but when he was alone with Presto. Then he never wanted any boys, and was perfectly at his ease and ...]."

The M rchen or child's story, is a form of literature primevally old, but with infinite capacity of renewing its youth. Old wives' fables, tales about a lad and a lass, and a cruel step-mother, about three adventurous brothers, about friendly or enchanted beasts, about magical weapons and rings, about giants and cannibals, are the most ancient form of romantic fiction. The civilised peoples have elaborated these childlike legends into the chief romantic myths, as of the Ship Argo, and the sagas of Heracles and Odysseus. Uncivilised races, Ojibbeways, Eskimo, Samoans, retain the old wives' fables in a form far less cultivated, -probably far nearer the originals.